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  • This small silver bardic chair was awarded to Joseph Harry at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1922 (Eisteddfod y Glomen Wen).
Minuature silver bardic chair from Birkenhead Eisteddfod, 1922
  • Given by the Shanghai Welsh Society to the 1933 Wrexham Eisteddfod.
Wrexham Eisteddfod chair, 1933
  • This chair was won by the bard 'Dyfed' (Evan Rees; 1850-1923) at the International Eisteddfod in connection with the World Fair at Chicago, 1893.
International Eisteddfod chair, Chicago, 1893
  • Eisteddfod chair from Uganda won by the Reverend Simon B. Jones at Fishguard National Eisteddfod, 1936.
Bardic chair won at the Fishguard National Eisteddfod, 1936
  • This miniature eisteddfod chair was won by W. J. Jones, Caernarfon, at the Cairo Eisteddfod of September 1943. The eisteddfod was attended by British soldiers serving in the Middle East at the time.
Miniature eisteddfod chair, 1943
  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. The poet and author T. Llew Jones (1915-) was born in Pentre-cwrt, near Llandysul, and worked as a teacher before become a full-time writer. He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1958 and 1959. He is the author of over fifty books, and is best-known as a writer of Welsh-language children's books, both prose and fiction. Many of his most popular novels are based on historical characters and events and include, 'Corn, Pistol a Chwip' (1969), 'Barti Ddu' (1973), 'Un Noson Dywyll' (1973), 'Tân ar y Comin' (1975) and 'Lleuad yn Olau' (1989).
T. Llew Jones winning the Lewis' shop Eisteddfod chair, Liverpool, 9 June 1950